Josh Vincent is a senior member of Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP’s Appellate Practice Group. He has briefed and argued 300 appeals resulting in 160 published decisions. Mr. Vincent has appeared 10 times in the Illinois Supreme Court. He has also appeared in the Florida Supreme Court; the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and Federal Circuits; the New Jersey Appellate Division; the Ohio Appellate Court; and all districts of the Illinois Appellate Court.

Many of Mr. Vincent’s appeals involve professional and products liability, employment discrimination, insurance coverage, commercial disputes, review of administrative agency decisions, criminal justice and labor law. He has won reversals of a $5 million punitive damages verdict in a products case; a $1 million verdict arising from a construction accident; a $2 million verdict in an insurance coverage case; and a $9 million verdict in a professional liability case. He has also won the affirmance of innumerable defense verdicts, declaratory judgments, summary judgments and dismissal orders.

Although Mr. Vincent dedicates the majority (70%) of his practice to appeals, he has won multiple jury verdicts in state and federal court and is a member of the federal trial bar in Chicago. His trial level practice mirrors the substantive areas of his appellate practice. Mr. Vincent joined Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP in May 1983 and was elected a partner in 1989. He has been an elected member of the firm’s Executive Committee since 2002.

Mr. Vincent is the firm’s Director of Professional Development. In that capacity, he oversees the firm’s Hiring, Attorney Life and Diversity Committees. He is also heavily involved in the education and mentoring of the firm’s young lawyers. Since 1998, he has had primary responsibility for Hinshaw University, which plans and produces the firm’s nationwide attorney training and continuing legal education programs. In 2007, Mr. Vincent became a member of the CLE Advisory Group to the Commission on Professionalism of the Illinois Supreme Court, where he participates in the development of continuing legal education courses dedicated to professional responsibility.

Mr. Vincent is the recipient of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association's 2012 John Paul Stevens Pro Bono and Public Service Award for outstanding pro bono work in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI) and serves on its Pro Bono Initiative Committee. Each year since 2003, Mr. Vincent has supervised the Chicago office’s incoming class of new lawyers in the pro bono prosecution of direct criminal appeals in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Mr. Vincent spearheaded the firm’s adoption of its first pro bono policy and the establishment of its nationwide pro bono services committee.

He is a member of the Leading Lawyers Network, where he was selected by his peers as a “Leading Lawyer” in the category of Civil Appellate Law. In addition, Illinois Super Lawyers magazine named Mr. Vincent to the Super Lawyers list in the area of Business Litigation in 2005, and in the area of Appellate Law annually since 2006.

For three years, Mr. Vincent taught appellate brief writing at DePaul University College of Law. During the spring quarter of 2010, Mr. Vincent taught an undergraduate constitutional law class at DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus. Mr. Vincent is a regular speaker at bar association seminars on topics such as appellate practice, trial practice, attorney training and education, health law and insurance coverage. His speaking engagements include:

• “Conflicts of Interest / Independent Counsel,” Chicago Bar Association seminar, “Emerging Issues in Insurance Coverage," Chicago, Illinois.
• American Bar Association National Conference on Professional Responsibility.
• IIT-Kent College of Law Health Law Spring Symposium.
• Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section Insurance Law Seminars.
• Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section Appellate and Trial Techniques Seminars.
• Sedona Conference on Complex Managed Care Liability.

Mr. Vincent is actively involved in his community and its philanthropic efforts. He has served as a fundraiser for a near north side battered women's shelter, collected Christmas gifts for the shelter's children, served as his neighborhood's spokesperson on issues of landmarking, provided financial support to community theater groups (Theater Wit and Shattered Globe Theater) and served as a "secret Santa" for underprivileged children enrolled in the South Chicago Art Center.